Significant Objects

Shout-out from 826 National

This nice note appears in the current 826 National newsletter:

Today: Our first multi-part story — from Kasper Hauser!

Readers, we try to keep things interesting and surprising for you here at Significant Objects, not merely publishing great stories all the time, but throwing a curveball every now and again. We’ve done so by offering stories in comix form, by selling a Mystery Object, by holding a contest or two, by teaming up with [...]

Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-03-07

Book spines as wallpaper? That could happen, don’t you think? http://bit.ly/9zVwf3 # “It would seem that even attaching a known fictitious story to an object added enough meaning to warrant the price.” http://bit.ly/cWRmhw # “This anxiety has lead to the accumulation of way too many significant things.” Intriguing project at: http://thethingsikeep.blogspot.com/ # Best Antiques Roadshow segment ever? How much [...]

Top 25 sales, Vols 1 & 2

Our data analysis to date has focused largely on Volume 1. But for fun, here’s an integrated top 25: The highest prices from the 150 (!) Significant Objects auctions that have closed to date. Questions? Comments? Let us know.

The giant check we wish we’d had

If you missed this comment, the above courtesy of S.O. v1 contributor, Sung J. Woo. How do you know the check is a giant one? Simple:

It’s not as exciting as a giant check but…

Here comes v3!

Significant Objects v3 gets underway in a matter of hours, and we’re really excited. Proceeds from this cycle of 50 stories, objects, and auctions will benefit Girls Write Now, which mentors under-served or at-risk high school girls in New York City and as their site puts it, is “mentoring the next generation of women writers.” Our [...]

Gearing up for v3

We’ll start publishing Significant Objects v3 stories on Monday, and we’re excited about the strong lineup of writers and the Significance they’ve invented. Usually we don’t announce in advance which writer will be published on which day, but there’s a reason to make one exception for next week. On Friday we’ll publish a story by Jim [...]

Significant Tweets for Week Ending 2010-02-21

“Thousands of ‘tasteful’ banana items” being auctioned on eBay. http://bit.ly/digU8j (Not by us.) # “Thinking about the role of objects in fiction; how they carry meaning for the story.” http://bit.ly/da3wSS # “Products that have a story to tell.” Compares S.O. to Bobsmade, and Nike PhotoID. http://bit.ly/aLlOBI # Really great @studio360show piece with Rick and Megan Prelinger, about their [...]

826 National’s Significant haul: $2,244.11!

With the close of the last auction of Significant Objects v2 on Friday, we can now report that this cycle of 50 object/story auctions ended in  $74.61 worth of flotsam selling for an impressive $2,244.11! We’ll crunch the numbers later, but that represents higher per-item prices than v1, which is pretty exciting. As you know, v2 [...]

The end of SO v2 — and here comes v3!

The final auction from Significant Objects volume 2 ends today, and when it’s all over we’ll have raised over $2,200 for 826 National. How? As always, by pairing great creative writing with otherwise near-worthless thingamajigs. We’ll recap the v2 final numbers soon, but for now we just want to say THANK YOU to Chris Adrian, Kathryn [...]

Presidents

We’re off duty today, thinking about our favorite presidents of all time, and watching the action in our shop. Speaking of which, the first auction in our collaboration with Underwater New York, Kangamouse + Chris Adrian Story, finished up at a whopping $162.50, which pushed us past $2,000 on the money raised for 826 National by [...]